History

The department was established on 5 June 1968 under the name of the Department of Molecular Biology. The department has changed its name several times (Institute for Molecular Biology and Plant Physiology, Department of of Molecular and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular Biology) in connection with mergers with other sections and departments.

On 1 July 2011, the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (MBG) was created by merging the Department of Molecular Biology (excluding the research groups within Lipid Biochemistry and Engineering) and the research groups within Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Molecular Genetics and System Biology, Quantitative Genetics and Biostatistics from the Department of Genetics and Biotechnology localised at Foulum (by Viborg) and Flakkebjerg (by Slagelse).

The department's activities are currently spread over seven different locations (Research Centre Foulum, Research Centre Flakkebjerg and in five different buildings in Aarhus - the "Biokæden" (Campus), two places at Biomedicine (Campus), the Science Park and the iNANO house at Gustav Wieds Vej), but in 2021, the whole department (except for the groups in Flakkebjerg and at iNANO) will move to a building complex at the municipal hospital ("Kommunehospitalet") when alle the activities of the hospital have been moved to the new hospital in Skejby.